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Why shouldn't we go through heartbreaks? Through those doorways God is opening up ways of fellowship with His Son. Most of us fall and collapse at the first grip of pain; we sit down on the threshold of God's purpose and die away of self-pity, and all so called Christian sympathy will aid us to our death bed. But God will not. He comes with the grip of the pierced hand of His Son, and says - "Enter into fellowship with Me; arise and shine." If through a broken heart God can bring His purposes to pass in the world, then thank Him for breaking your heart. by Oswald Chambers posted by Annie @ 10:46 AM | | We have the idea that God rewards us for our faith, it may be truth about enzyte so in the initial stages; but we do not earn anything by faith, faith brings us into right relationship with God and gives God His opportunity. God has frequently to knock the bottom board out of your experience if you are a saint in order to get you into contact with Himself. God wants you to understand that it is a life of faith, not a life of sentimental enjoyment of His blessings. Your earlier life of faith was narrow and intense, settled around a little sun-spot of experience that had as much of sense as of faith in it, full of light and sweetness; then God withdrew His conscious blessings in order to teach you to walk by faith...Faith in its actual working out has to go through spells of unsyllabled isolation...You are worth far more to Him now than you were in your days of conscious delight and thrilling testimony. by Oswald Chambers posted by Annie @ 7:20 PM | | THE CENTURIONS American Life League received this prayer request email two days ago from David Bereit, National Campaign Director of 40 Days for Life. Please read and keep this intention in your prayers: On Saturday a medical worker at a Planned Parenthood abortion center where a 40 Days for Life campaign is happening approached the prayer volunteers outside. She said that Planned Parenthood had told its workers that they would be immediately fired if they ever talked to those on the sidewalk, but she felt drawn to them -- and she shared that she desperately wants out of her job. She explained that after she started working at Planned Parenthood earlier this year, the abortion business assigned her the gruesome task of counting the baby body parts following each abortion to make sure everything was removed from the mother. What she has seen inside the walls of Planned Parenthood is horrific. She then shared that several weeks ago a young woman sat before her registering for an abortion and said, "I'm so conflicted, should I do this or not?" She leaned forward and quietly told her, "Don't do this." The girl left, her baby alive within her. A co-worker overheard and reported her to the abortion center's supervisor who wrote her up and put a stern warning in her employment file. She asked the 40 Days for Life prayer volunteers if she could meet Monday with someone who might be able to help her -- and the time she had available was the exact time that Jim Pinto, pastoral associate for Priests for Life, was there in town for his visit to the 40 Days for Life location. Jim stopped everything else to pray for her, with her, and over her. He also connected her with an organization called The Centurions that helps to bring abortion providers out of the abortion industry where they can find forgiveness and healing in Christ and restore their sense of self-worth. The 40 Days for Life volunteers are now taking up a collection to provide for her short-term needs so she can leave her job immediately and they are helping her find another job quickly since she is the sole provider for her four daughters and needs income. Jim, there is a real possibility that these faithful 40 Days for Life volunteers may be able to help her walk away from the abortion industry TODAY! Praise God for what He is doing in this woman's life, and please keep her -- and this situation -- in your prayers throughout the day. More on The Society of Centurions, also here and here. For more information, contact The Society of Centurions of America at PO Box 75368, St. Paul, MN 55175, Phone 651-771-1500, Fax 651-771-6967. They also have chapters in Canada and Europe. And also in my inbox was this email from a local friend who's still out there, as I used to be, giving concrete help to women who need and want it, on the abortion clinic sidewalks, the one where I had my abortion 29 years ago: This morning at Summit one of the employees (I always smile & say good morning to all of them) stopped to tell me, "You don't need to come here on Thurs. anymore, beginning Nov 1st. It has been slow here, really slow, & beginning Nov 1st, we are only going to be opened two days a week. All our business here will be taken care of on Wed. & Sat. The Bridgeport office is also going to be opened two days a week also. I just wanted to let you know it's been so slow they can't afford to stay open every day." Thanks, posted by Annie @ 12:34 PM | | "How are you doing today with your healing?" If you'd like to share, also anonymously, your thoughts/feelings on your emotional aftermath of abortion, what helps in recovery, how it feels, etc., either leave an anonymous comment or email us. (Anything emailed for this would ONLY be shared here AT YOUR SOLE PERMISSION and would be in strictest confidence, with ALL info omitted or changed to protect privacy as we've always done, and we never share or sell any contact info. If, after a post/comment goes up, you change your mind and want it removed, we'll do that too.) Why do this? This is why. posted by Annie @ 5:52 AM | | Remembering Our Aborted Children I was reading my prayer list this morning. Actually reading it, person by person, instead of being too busy and just asking for "help for all on my prayer list" as I do sometimes...and I had an idea. While this blog is in hiatus from daily blogging, I thought it would be a good idea to post, on any given day, the first names of anyone's babies lost to abortion who they have since come to grieve. Sort of a "request-line," only for the blog's visitors. There may be another site out there doing this (please let me know if you know of one), but there must be a way to do this respectfully, even anonymously if someone prefers, which I believe most folks do. I may be biting off more than I can chew (if I get a lot of emails!) but if you email me (SEE THE EMAIL LINK "Annie" AT TOP RIGHT OF THE SIDEBAR) asking to post a short note remembering and/or praying for you and your lost child on the date he or she was aborted or, alternatively, would have been born, I will do my best to put up a "Memorial Post" on that date. Dads as well as Moms can write me. If you'd even like to remember a family member lost to abortion, not your own child, but maybe a niece, nephew or grandchild, feel free to contact me too. Even if the baby has not been remembered with a name yet, we will still do this. If you wish to remain completely anonymous, we of course will respect that (as we always have). No email addresses will ever be shared with ANYONE, nothing. We have had perhaps thousands of emails from visitors over the past four years, and have never dishonored a confidence. We never will. We understand far too well what is at stake. You can even go to Yahoo or Google Mail and create a free email account to use just this once so we'll never know the email address you usually use. We're not technically savvy here at this blog to know who anyone is when they email us and even if we were, we both have dayjobs and don't have the TIME to figure any of that out! ALSO, we ask that all read our commenting guidelines first and EVERYONE ONLY POST ENCOURAGING, POSITIVE COMMENTS (SEE BELOW). NO DEBATE, NO OPINION, NO QUESTIONS ASKED, NOTHING FOCUSED ON ANYONE BUT THOSE WE ARE REMEMBERING AND/OR PRAYING FOR. As blog-founder Emily wrote in our guidelines, Some ways we could memorialize could be: For my daugher, Erin Madeline, aborted around Easter time, 1978. Eve Christine, child of H. February 1979: Luke Raphael, child of R. February 11, 1983: Mary Lee, child of N. 18 yr. old mom of 2 y.o. daughter who aborted unborn son 1/20/04 You will know that it is your memorial and your prayer, and you can be the only one who knows. Imagine hundreds, thousands of our visitors reading and offering up a thought for you and your lost child on the day you might be hurting the most. |